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When did Homo erectus die out? A fresh look at the demise of an ...


Origin of the Genus Homo | Evolution: Education and Outreach

Although it was anatomically and behaviorally primitive compared to modern humans, H. erectus signifies a major shift in hominin evolution, most ...

What if other human species hadn't died out - BBC

In the past, some species were far more like us than other apes – Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, Homo erectus and Neanderthals. Homo sapiens ...

Article Past Extinctions of Homo Species Coincided with Increased ...

This reduction coincides with increased vulnerability to climate change. In the case of Neanderthals, the increased extinction risk was probably ...

Did Homo Erectus Die from Laziness? - Peaceful Science

New archaeological research has found that Homo erectus, an extinct species of primitive humans, went extinct in part because they were ...

Homo ergaster - The Australian Museum

The core group within this species lived between 1.5 and 1.9 million years ago although some classifications include additional individuals that extends their ...

What happened to the other Human Species? - YouTube

Comments791 · Homo erectus | Why Did the Most Successful Early Human Go Extinct? · The Truth Behind the Massacre of a Roman Army at Teutoburg ...

If Homo erectus still existed today, would they be treated exactly like ...

H. Erectus, like some others, were extinct by the time our species appeared, while others, like Neanderthals and Denisovans, co-existed with us ...

Homo Erectus - The First Humans - YouTube

Comments7.3K · The complex evolution of homo sapiens - 1,000,000 to 30,000 years ago · When Did Hominins First Leave Africa? · Europe's (Highly ...

Who were the Neanderthals—and why did they go extinct?

Whatever their cognitive abilities, Neanderthals were ultimately doomed. However, their extinction is just as contentious as other facets of ...

Down to Earth - Improved age for the Ngandong Homo erectus...

Improved age for the Ngandong Homo erectus has opened new ... When did Homo erectus die out? A fresh look at the demise of an ancient human spe...

Direct human ancestor Homo erectus is older than we thought

The hominin is a direct ancestor of modern humans, experienced a changing climate, and moved out of Africa into other continents. The discovery ...

Evolution of modern humans - Your Genome

Modern humans originated in Africa within the past 200,000 years and evolved from the now extinct Homo erectus. ... The Neanderthals, or Homo neanderthalis, were ...

Did Our Human Ancestors Come Close to Extinction? | HISTORY

Modern humans—aka Homo sapiens—emerged about 300,000 years ago after evolving from human ancestors. There's a lot we still don't know about ...

Human Extinction: A New Look From Homo habilis to the ...

Before we kill off all the various ancient humans, let's establish a baseline for what these humans were like. Let's use the earliest species we ...

Why did Homo sapiens outlast all other human species?

Australopithecus emerged as Ardipithecus was disappearing; Paranthropus and the first Homo species appeared in Africa about 3 million years ago, ...

Climate Change Drove Early Human Species Extinct, Says New Study

... was the primary factor in the extinction of past Homo species: H. habilis, H. ergaster, H. erectus, H. heidelbergensis, and H. neanderthalensis.

Morphological variation in Homo erectus and the origins of ...

Homo erectus was the first hominin to exhibit extensive range expansion. This extraordinary departure from Africa, especially into more temperate climates ...

What do we know about the ancestry of Homo erectus? - John Hawks

“No gradual series of changes in earlier australopithecine populations clearly leads to the new species [Homo sapiens], and no australopithecine ...

The largest mammals have always been at the greatest risk of ...

1.5 million years ago, our Homo erectus ancestors roamed the earth with mammals weighing several tonnes. There were the 'straight-tusked ...

Homo sapiens & early human migration (article) - Khan Academy

Neanderthals went extinct during the Heinrich H5 event (a thousands of years long shift from cold conditions to even colder conditions) There were extinctions ...